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Following a year of exceptional growth, Anglia is looking to recruit a further 25 staff to boost its workforce by 10%. Some of the new positions are field-based, while others will be located at the Company’s headquarters in Wisbech, Cambridgeshire.

In recognition of the important, increasing role MEMS technology is playing within system level electronics, ISLI (The institute for System Level Integration) has joined forces with the University of Paisley's Microscale Sensors Group to research and develop integrated CMOS and piezo MEMS devices. Paisley has formally been accepted as an associate member of ISLI and joins the existing full and associate members which include Edinburgh, Glasgow, H...

The Institute for System Level Integration (iSLI) recently received a prestigious visit from His Excellency Mr Valdas Adamkus, President of the Republic of Lithuania. As a guest of the British Government and a visitor of the Queen, the President expressed an interest in visiting a research and innovation company during his stay in the UK. Subsequently, the iSLI and Alba Centre, accredited as a Centre of Excellence, were approached to host the Lit...

Texas Instruments Incorporated introduced today an easy-to-use, high-performance ultrasound signal chain demonstration kit that speeds time to market and lowers cost by cutting development time for ultrasound equipment. The demonstration kit provides a complete, eight-channel analog receive signal chain enabling users to process signals from the output of the probe through a high-performance variable gain amplifier and analog-to-digital converter...

Texas Instruments Incorporated announced today full-production release of its new PCI Express x1 physical layer (PHY) device, the XIO1100. The XIO1100 is ideal for markets demanding low-cost PCIe end-point solutions such as data acquisition, industrial, networking and communication, medical and imaging, as well as consumer and video. XIO1100 is compliant with the PCI Express Base Specification Revision 1.1 and PHY Interface for the PCI Express Ar...

Integrated Engineering, a world leading powerhouse in the contactless smart card industry, announced today that its contactless SmartID readers have been approved by the US General Services Administration (GSA) as compliant with the Federal Information Processing Standard 201 (FIPS 201). Integrated Engineering’s readers are the first GSA PIV II Certified smart card readers included on the GSA Approved Products list for FIPS 201 compliant projec...

Sony Electronics and National Instruments have announced that the Sony XCI-SX1 Smart Camera under the Microsoft® Windows XPe operating system is compatible with National Instruments NI Vision Builder for Automated Inspection (AI) software. By combining the simplicity and reliability of the Sony Smart Camera with the ease of use of the NI Vision Builder AI machine vision software from National Instruments, engineers can configure, benchmark and d...

TDC announces the quad-band RoHS compliant Siemens TC65 Version 2 featuring full primary and secondary serial port control under Java. With improved IMP 2.0 Java performance and benefiting from lower power consumption in online data modes, the TC65 Version 2 is perfect for power sensitive applications demanding maximum integration. The TC65 version 2 is available from TDC as a module, Terminal and Starter Pack.

Power-One, Inc. (NASDAQ: PWER) and Silicon Laboratories Inc. (NASDAQ: SLAB), today jointly announced that they have entered into an agreement to settle and resolve the patent infringement lawsuit filed by Power-One on December 14, 2005 against Silicon Laboratories.

Strategic Test Corp has released two new Digitizer cards using multiple 8-bit ADC’s with maximum sampling rates of 100 MS/s or 200 MS/s in interleave mode. Based on the new UF2 series carrier card, it uses a PCI-X (66 MHz/32-bit PCI) bus that can continuously transfer data to the host PC at up to 225 MSamples per second. The advantage being that the user can record longer signals at high-speed to cheap PC RAM instead of buying additonal digitiz...